Development and infill were Hale’s directive and some neighborhoods were ruined as a result of his being head of Planning and Parks. He can claim he likes to build centers, but that is his stick, building and development. Anyone who believes Charlie Hales was good for Parks hasn’t been around, forgets, or just simply gives him a pass for selling Johnswood Park to a developer for housing, for not caring one whit whether huge firs and cedars were chopped out of our parks. Ask those in St. Johns where 75 red x’s were painted on huge trees in Pier Park why Charlie got the name Chainsaw Charlie. Fortunately, those red x’s caused a furor and the trees were eventually saved. Ask those citizens who had to fight for their parks and their neighborhoods during that Charlie Hales period?
Folks were plenty upset in the SW area as well regarding their neighborhood plan. In my opinion, no one better than Charlie if one wants the fox back in the hen house.

Road Work

Miles run year to date: 156
At this date last year: 225
Total run in 2014: 401
In 2013: 257
In 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269